SpatiaLite

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GNU General Public License

( Free Software )

SpatiaLite is a free, OpenGIS compatible geographic information system which extends SQLite to geographic features and functions of the file - based database.

Properties

SpatiaLite is a GIS extension for SQLite and consists of the program library libspatial2 and the command line commands spatialite -bin.

SpatiaLite supports the following geometries and functions:

  • OpenGIS compliant Well Known Text and Well Known Binary geometry
  • OpenGIS compliant, spatial functions such as Overlaps, Touches, etc. based on the GEOS library
  • Coordinate projections based on the PROJ.4 library
  • Conversion between different character encodings chains with Iconv
  • Shape files can be imported and exported
  • The Virtual Network extension allows computing the shortest path between two nodes in a network using the Dijkstra algorithm
  • The Virtual Shape and Virtual Text extensions allow access to external Shapefiles and CSV spreadsheets without them having to be imported

Software support

SpatiaLite is supported by the following GIS and tools:

  • Desktop: ArcGIS ( Desktop ) version 10.2 as " Database Connection".
  • QGIS supports SpatiaLite natively since version 1.1
  • AutocadMap 2013
  • Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional 11.5.2
  • Global Mapper
  • OpenJUMP provides a plug -in.
  • FME ( also available as server)
  • TileMill ( used among others Mapnik ) reads SpatiaLite as a data source.
  • GeoDjango provides an interface
  • Web2py (web framework ) native
  • Feature Server, a WFS server.
  • OGR Simple Feature Library reads and writes SpatiaLite version 1.7
  • GeoTools supports the JDBC module, among other SpatiaLite
  • Mapnik, a renderer - together with the SQLite driver.
  • Pyspatialite, a Python library.
  • OSGeo Live DVD includes a short tutorial spatialite alongwith.
  • GeoConverter - Free Online data converter that reads various GIS vector file formats, and writes (based on OGR ), including also SpatiaLite.
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